Numbering-machine.



No. 648,433. Patented; May.` I', |900.

J. H. REINHARDT.

NUMBERING MACHINE.

(Application led Mar. 22, 1898.) (No Model.)

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I' ai o 'o @To terra STATES JAMES H. REINHARDT, OF NEWARK,

NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO JOSEPH VETTER & CO., OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

NUMBERlNG-MACHINE,

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 648,433, dated May 1, 1900. Application filed March 22, 1898. Serial No. 674,789. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES H. REINHARDT,

a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Newark, county of Essex, in the State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Numbering-Machines, of which the following is a speciiication, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.

This invention relates to consecutive-numbering machines or other machines of like character in which the iigures vor other characters to be printed are formed upon wheels which are adapted to be rotated to bring the desired characters to the line of print. In

machines of this character the wheels are generally advanced just after the impression has been made and while the platen or other impression surface is receding or retiring zo from the surface of the type, and it not infrequently happens that the wheels begin to move while the paper is in contact therewith, whereby the fresh impression is blurred.

it is the object of the present invention, z 5 therefore, to provide means whereby the movement of the wheels shall be retarded or delayed slightly until the paper has separated from the wheels.

Practical embodiments of the invention are 3o illustrated in the accompanying drawings,

wherein the improvements are shown as applied to numbering-machines of that particular character in which an independent plunger is dispensed with and the numbering- 3 5 wheels are mounted in a case or frame which is vertically movable within an. outer case or frame, the forward movements of the wheels being produced through suitable intermediate mechanism by the vertical reciprocations 4o of the inner frame or case under the action of the impression-surface and the springs upon which the inner case or frame is seated; but it will be obvious that the invention is not necessarily restrictedto its application to such machines.

In the drawings, Figure l is a plan View of a machine of the character referred to, to which the present improvements are applied. Fig. 2 is a section on the plane indicated by 5o the line 2 2 of Fig. l, the inner frame or case being in its elevated position. Figs. 3 and et are views similar to Fig. 2, but with the inner frame or case in its lowest position and in an intermediate position and with the retarding or delaying device in diderent positions. Fig. 5 is a View similar to Fig. 2, but illustrating avmodication of the retarding or delaying device.

The machine shown in the drawings coms prises an outer frame or case A, which is 6o adapted to be locked in the form with the type. The numbering-wheels B B are mounted to rotate upon the shaft O, which is iixed in an inner framev or case D. The said inner frame or case :lits freely within the outer case or frame A, so as to be capable of a limited vertical movement within the same, and is supported upon one or more springs d. A' pawl-frame E, provided with pawls to actuate the numbering-wheels by engagement with 7o their respective ratchets in the usual Inanner, is mounted to swing upon the shaft O and is provided with a notch e for engagement with its actuating devices. The precise character of the said Aactuating devices is not material to the present invention; but in the construction shown in the drawings a lever F is pivoted at one end, as at f, to the inner frame or case, and at the other end is provided with a pin j, which projects through 8o an elongated opening d' in the end of the inner frame or case and engages the slot or notchein the end memberof the pawl-frame.

A second lever G is also pivoted to the inner frame or case at a point between its ends, as at g,iand is connected to the lever F by alinh g'. A pin or stud a, carried by the outer frame or case A, engages one end of' the lever G to cause the same to oscillate as the inner frame or case moves up and down, and 9o the said lever G at its other end engages the retarding or delaying device. As shown in Figs. 2, 3, and 4 of the drawings, the retarding or delaying device I-I consists of a spirally-slotted hub which is mounted to rotate on a vertical axis in bearings carried by the inner frame or case, the end of the lever G being adapt-ed to engage the slot h as the lever G moves up, whereby the upward movenient of said lever, and consequently, through roo the described connections, the forward or actuating movement oit' the pawl-frame, is delayed slightly to permit the `paper to-be separated from the numbering-wheels before the latter commence to move. It is unnecessary that the lever G shall engage the delaying device during the downward movement of the lever, and the extremity of the lever is therefore provided with a yielding portion or springpressed latch g2, which yields and slips over the hub II during the downward movement of the lever G, but is held by a stop g3 during the upward movement of the lever G, so that said lever is permitted to rise only as the said latch travels upward in the spiral slot 7L of the rotating hub Il. The lever Gand link g are employed in the construction shown for the sake of the greater amplitude of movement which is thereby secured for the part which engages the retarding or delaying device, the delay in the action of the pawl-frame being correspondingly increased in this way. It is obvious, however, that a single lever may be employed in place of the two levers F and G, and in Fig. 5 is shown a single lever G, which is actuated substantially in the same manner as the lever G (shown in Figs. 2, 3, and Ll) and has pivoted thereon a link F', which engages the pawl-frame through a pin j" in the manner already described. The retarding or delaying device is represented in Fig. 5 as a dash-pot H', of ordinary construction. The plunger h' is connected by a link 71,2 to the extremity of the lever G/, and the upper end of the cylinder of the dash-pot is provided with a port h3, which is closed by a downwardly-opening valve 7i, whereby the downward movement of the lever G is not affected; but the upward movement oi the same is delayed or retarded with the results already described.

It is frequently desirable in the use of numbering-machines to change the position of a machine end for end, so that the printed impressions shall be reversed. This is accomplished with the ordinary machine by unlocking it from the form and reversing it bodily; but with this machine the same result can be accomplished without requiring the form to be unlocked. To this end theinner case D is made bodily removable and reversible end for end within the outer case A, and at each end of the outer case A is provided a device, such as the pin a, for engaging with the actuating mechanism for the numbering-wheels.

The mode oli' operation of the improvements herein described will be clearly understood without further explanation herein. It will be obvious, moreover, that retarding devices of many different and well-known forms may be employed for the purpose in view herein and that they may be applied in many diiii'erent ways to the actuating devices of the numbering-wheels. Consequently the invention is not to be restricted to the precise construction and arrangement shown and described herein.

I claim as my inventionl. In a.numbering-machine, the combination with the numbering-wheels and actuating devices therefor, of a retarding or delaying device within the casing or i'ramc of the machine and operatively connected to said actuating devices to render their operative movement slow but continuous, whereby, in printing, the paper is permitted to leave the numbering-wheels before they are moved forwardly by their actuating devices; substantially as described.

2. In a numbering-machine, the combination with the number-wheels, a patri-trame, and actuating devices for said pawl-frame, oi` a retarding or delaying device within the frame or casing of the machine and. operatively connected to said actuating devices to render their operative movement slow but continuous, whereby the paper is permitted to leave the wheels before they are moved forwardly by their actuating devices; substantially as described.

3. In a numbering-machine, the combination with the numbering-wheels, of a lever, means to oscillate said lever, actuating connections between said lever and said numbering-wheels, and a retarding or delaying device within the frame or casing oi: the ma chine, and operatively connected to said lever to render its movement slow but continuous, whereby the paper is permitted to leave the wheels before they are moved forwardly by their actuating devices; substantially as described.

4. In a numbering-niacinne, the combination with the numbering-wlieels, of a lever, means to oscillate said lever, actuating connections between said lever and said numbering-wheels and a spirally-slotted hub mounted to rotate and engaged by said lever.

5. In a numbering-machine, the combination with the numbering-wheels, and a pawlframe,of a lever connected to said pawl-frame, a second levercon neeted tothe lirst-nained lever, means to oscillate the second-named lever, and a retardin g or delaying device operatively connected tothe second-named lever.

6. In a numbering-machine, the combination with an outer frame or case, an inner frame or case having a limited vertical movement in the outer fra-me or case and provided with a slot in one end, numbering-wheels carried by the inner frame or case, a pawl-carrying frame mounted on the axis ofthe numbering-wheels for actuating said wheels, a lever in the space between the slotted end of the inner frame or case and the adjacent end of the outer case; said lever being pivoted to said inner case, in engagement with said outer case and operatively connected to the pawlframe through the said slot, and a retarding device also in the space between said ends of the two casings and operatively connected to said lever to render its movement slow but continuous; substantially as described.

7. In a numbering-machine, `the combina` IOCD IIO

tion with an outer frame or case, an inner vThis speciicaton signed and witnessed this frame or case bodily removable from andre- 21st day of March, A. D. 1898. Versible end for end Within the outer case,

numbering-Wheels carried by said inner case, JAMES H' REINHARD? 5 actuating mechanism for said. numbeiing- In presence of* Wheels, and a device at each end of the outer W. B. GREELEY,

case to engage said actuating mechanism. A. N. JE'SBERA. 

